Gaceta Oficial

The Gaceta Oficial de la Republica de Cuba is the Cuban state's official legal gazette, the publication of record in which decree-laws, ministerial resolutions and economic measures acquire legal force. It is the instrument analysts and lawyers watch to judge whether an announced Cuban reform has become real administrative law or remains a political statement.

It is the instrument through which the 176-measure reform passed on 18 June 2026 would be operationalised into binding rules for private banks, exchange houses and microcredit lenders. As of 1 July 2026 the most recent issue was No. 54, dated 29 June, and no confirmed implementing regulation for the private-banking reform had yet appeared in it, leaving the reform as enabling legislation rather than an operating framework.

On 16 July 2026 the gazette published Resolution 155/2026, Cuba's Ministry of Finance and Prices' 64% increase in the retail price of a 10kg bottled cooking-gas cylinder (from 213 to 350 CUP), reaching 1,707,763 contracted GLP customers; the government attributed the rise to the intensifying US blockade. Unlike the still-unimplemented banking reform, the gas-price resolution shows the gazette can move quickly when a measure raises state revenue rather than devolving state control.